Russ, Matt, You guys are great. Manage thanks. I edited the hosts file as suggested below to allow a dev.mydomain.com hostname and I input that into IIS. I'm now getting the following message from IIS which at least seems like a step in the right direction: ----------------------------------------------------------------- HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid -----------------------------------------------------------------
It seems like there is a permissions issue here somewhere. I've been tweaking some settings but so far have not been able to track it down. N ............................................................................ .. CitySoft, Inc. | http://www.citysoft.com Phone: (866) 751-1992 | Direct: (617) 899-5395 | Fax: (617) 507-0444 Spend Less >> Do More - Community Enterprise combines great features with an affordable price. ............................................................................ .. > -----Original Message----- > From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:11 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: url path problem when running a CF site on my local > computer > > > set each of your sites to use "dev.yourdomain.com" > > run notepad as administrator > now open the file c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc > > at the bottom of this file enter > > 127.0.0.1 dev.yourdomain.com > > repeat for additional domains > > and save the file. > > all the domains you have entered here will now resolve to your local > machine > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Matt Quackenbush > <quackfu...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Bind to 127.0.0.1 instead of your standard public-facing IP like on > > the server. > > > > Or, just bind to *:80. That should work as well. > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Nick Gleason <n.glea...@citysoft.com > > >wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi there. So, I took the plunge and upgraded to Windows 7 and got > > > IIS installed. So far so good. I've set up a web site in IIS to > > > use for > > this > > > purpose, but the tricky part has been getting it to display through > > > a browser. When we user our remote servers, we assign a site to an > > > IP and add one or more host headers so that requests through a > > > browser will resolve correctly. But, that doesn't seem to be the > > > right scenario with a > > locally > > > deployed site. I'm searching online but if anyone can suggest how > > > best > > to > > > configure a local site in IIS, that would certainly be appreciated. > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Russ Michaels [mailto:r...@michaels.me.uk] > > > > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 2:14 AM > > > > To: cf-talk > > > > Subject: Re: url path problem when running a CF site on my local > > > > computer > > > > > > > > > > > > you need to put your website in the root and not inside a test > > > > folder so that your links work. > > > > Otherwise you will need to make your links relative to the page > > > > they are on or include /text/ in the link, which is not really a > > > > good solution. > > > > If you are running windows 7 then you get the full version of > IIS7 > > > > for free so wont have any such problems. > > > > Download the web platform installer and use this to install IIS > > > > and other useful components. > > > > > > > > If you are on windows XP then you can use IIS 6 but it is limited > > > > to 1 site, so you would be better off using Apache. > > > > > > > > Or if you want to get rid of the hassle of running a local dev > > > > server altogether then try www.cfmldeveloper.com > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > Russ Michaels > > > > > > > > www.bluethunderinternet.com : Business hosting services & > solutions > > > > www.cfmldeveloper.com : ColdFusion developer community > > > > www.michaels.me.uk : my blog > > > > www.cfsearch.com : ColdFusion search engine > > > > ** > > > > *skype me* : russmichaels > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:350553 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
